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“Mia, are you crying?” Devin asked standing directly over her. “Mia why are youcrying?”
“I ruined it for you. All those people. It was supposed to be your moment and I ruined it.” She put her face in her hands then again felt a panic rise up when the light was blottedout.
She heard him sigh and step away. The next instant she was grabbed by the arm. “Out with you,” he snapped, pulling her dripping from the tub. The sheet wrapped around her and then his arms followed. She was squeezed so hard against him her breathing was constricted. “You ruined nothing. Do I need to paddle you properly to make you understandthat?”
“I wanted everyone to see that you married a lady and all they saw was a wet rat,” Mia mumbled against his chest as her hands worked their way out of the sheet so she could hold on tohim.
“All they saw, Mia, was a brave and daring woman, a hero who rescued a child at great peril toherself.”
“He was there on the dock and the next he was in the water, sinking to the bottom. I didn’t know what else to do. I didn’t know the pilings would be blocked. He couldn’t hold his breath or I’d have gone under. Ididn’t…”
All her life Mia never shied from taking risks. And even when they’d not ended like she’d planned she’d never been left feeling so frightened by them. And she’d certainly been responsible for the lives of other people. Entire crews could depend on her. But that one child, he’d been so scared and she truly started to believe she was lying to him about getting out. Long before Devin responded to her, she wondered if it would be less cruel to hold the child under, drown him quickly, rather than keeping him choking and terrified until they both succumbed to thetide.
And she knew, as wrong as it was, she’d had a moment when she considered letting the child go that she might swim down under the ship and have a chance to make it out and back toDevin.
“What happened, Mia? Did you think about saving yourself during it all?” Devin asked, pulling her closer. She nodded, not able to speak with the lump in her throat. “Anyone would have. I think everyone has a moment when they must choose to save what they can. Save the ship or save the sailor. But you got through that moment Mia. You got through it and you saved that child. And knowing now how it turned out I would not fault you doing it again. No one saw a drowned rat, my love, they saw a hero. They saw what all of us on the ship saw several times over. I’m so proud ofyou.”
“Aye, Captain,” she sobbed and tried to cling more tightly to him. How she’d have missed feeling this if she’d died under the docks. It couldn’t be safer in God’s own arms. He anchored her even in the roughest seas. “Devin, please.” She needed something. Something more to prove she didn’t really die and this wasn’t just how heaven looked. “Please.”
“What do you need, Mia?” he asked, looking down on her. She set her hand on the side of his face and drew him down as she reached for thekiss.
It started chaste enough, but once she felt his warmth it touched off an inferno within her. Her fingers tangled in his hair, pulling him down so she could taste everything. She made sure every time they broke the kiss to breathe, she inhaled his scent. The pounding she felt might have been her heart or his. And the strength of his hands on her, even through the sheet, bordered on pain. But it was the pain that made her know she wasn’t dead. It was the pain she needed more of. “Please Devin, please. I need to feel it. Make me feelit.”
She didn’t need to explain, not to Devin. He knew her. Knew her needs and wants. Gave them without judgment. He lifted her from the floor and crossed the room to the large bed where he set her down and stripped the sheet from her before spinning her away and pushing her face down over the feather mattress. Even before she’d settled, his hand smacked downhard.
“That Mia? Is that want you need?” She answered by lifting her ass higher. He landed a second smack even as he took a seat on the bed to her left. “Yes, agoodspanking for a naughty heroine. Spread your legs, Mia. Spread them wide.” She did, trying to open her legs and get more situated on the bed. He didn’t give her the chance. His hand struck again, this time directly on the swelling lips between her thighs. The pain rolled over her, pushing a moan from herlips.
“Aye, Captain. Please,” she said, when it seemed too much time passed between the last time his hand fell andnow.
“Say my name, Mia,” Devin said, giving her right ass cheek a solid blow. “Say it,” he commanded, followed by the same action administered to herleft.
“Devin.” She might love saying his name as much as he loved hearing it. “Devin, please. Don’t stop.” He complied delivering three sharp hits, all to her sex which dripped as her need for more continued tobuild.
“This isn’t enough for you is it, little pirate?” he asked. Mia heard the soft clink of his belt buckle. “Maybe this?” A second later the bite of leather on her inner thigh caused her to cry out. She jerked away but was quick to arch back as the second stroke fell. This one clipped the outer edge of her sex and sent a burning pleasure tearing through her. “Aye. I see what you need now,” Devin said then began raining quick, smart blows down all over her ass and thighs. Several hit her sex and each time she was pushed a little closer, but she still couldn’t find it. “Maybe this will help.” She heard him say, but not sure if he spoke to her or to himself. Then his hand was working under her, wiggling past her mons and forcing the lips to part until the bud was exposed. He set his fingers on her and ground into her hard just as the belt landed again across the span of one thigh. It was the next spank that sent her over. She pushed down onto his fingers to keep the wave from breaking too soon. When it did, it left Mia seeing stars behind her closed lids. “Like that, Mia mine, just likethat.”
Mia gulped in air and forced her hands to relax in the bedclothes she clutched. Yes, just like that. “More Devin. Pleasemore.”
He chuckled. “Greedy wench,” he said before moving to stand behind her. The rustle of clothing was followed by his hands on her hips lifting so her knees were on the bed. He stepped forward and entered her with one hardthrust.
Mia cried out as he pulled back and thrust forward hard a second time. One more exactly as the last two and Mia was spinning off the cliff again. Devin’s strokes settled into purposeful, long, strong movements and Mia easily matched them. He threw her in the wake of passion one more time before what he was doing wasn’t enough. If she was truly alive she wanted to know it with every part of her body. “Devin, please.Please.”
“Mia?” he asked even as he withdrew and pushed her hips down to the right position. “This Mia? This is what youneed?”
“Aye, please,” Mia begged, and the very act made her shiver with pleasure. She felt him align his cock with her asshole and push in. The pain from the unprepared entry eased almost too soon. But when he let his weight push him in as deep as he could reach, Mia had to bury her face in the bedding to muffle thescream.
She felt his fingers dig in as he gripped her hips and pulled her back then pushed her forward. She tried once to aid him, but the excruciating pleasure sapped her body of all its strength. She rather thought she’d turned into a jellyfish for how limp she felt. When she came she’d barely enough left to hold for Devin to finish. He fell on top of her as small ripples continued to course throughher.
“Did you get what you needed, my love?” Devin asked, slipping to her side, and brushing the hair from herface.
“Aye.” She’d needed to know she was alive and if finding out was going to be the end of her, it was the best way todie.
He chuckled, reached to kiss her then dragged the covers around her. “Let me see about some food, then maybe we can have another go.” He kissed her again before rolling to his back and sitting up. “Will you be all right here alone until I comeback?”
She closed her eyes and nodded. Thinking how it might be next time, after some food and maybe a nap. She snuggled in as the covers were adjusted around her, the bitter cold of the English port forgotten now with her flesh so heated. And the fears fading, too. She’d survived and Devin was with her. What else mattered? Nothing at all that she could see on thehorizon.
Chapter 4
Devin looked backone more time before closing the door. Mia was bundled in the thick bedding, snoring softly. He’d expected that break to come a little sooner, but Mia did things in her own time, her ownway.
